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"How can you allow this?"
I groaned as my grandfather on my mother's side stepped forward.
Guess not.
I hadn't seen my grandfather since I was a small child. He looked a lot older now. I knew vampires tended to age slowly, but this guy had gray hair, wrinkles around his eyes, and heavy jowls under his chin.
"This is wrong," he snapped. "We arranged a mating for our daughter with an alpha from another clan before she ran away from home and she threw it all away. She humiliated us and now you expect us to accept this sham of a mating? Everyone knows two women can't be mated to each other. It goes against the Fates."
"You've talked to them then?"
My grandfather frowned. "Talked to who?"
"The Fates."
"No, of course not, but—"
"Then how do you know?"
"Everyone knows. How can she produce an heir if she's mated to another woman?"
KingNicolae pointed to me. "Problem solved."
My grandfather sneered as he looked me up and down. "Him? He's half gryphons. He can never be the heir to my clan."
I snorted rather loudly. "You actually think I want to be heir to your clan? I'd rather be dead."
Alessandro growled and yanked me closer. "René is the consort of a prince. What reason could he have for being the heir to your clan? He will rule all of Italy at my side, not simply one tiny bit of land."
My grandfather's eyes narrowed. He was obviously enraged, but I didn't care. I had stopped caring a long time ago.
"I'm perfectly fine if you want to write me out of the family line. I didn't need you as a child and I don't need you now. I am perfectly happy being Alessandro's consort."
"Are you sure you want to do that, René?" Alessandro asked silently."The Etra Clan is a long and established one."
"I'm sure,"I assured him."I've never really been a member of that clan and now I have a new one. What do I need them for?"
"If you're sure."
"I am."
"Very well."He turned to King Nicolae. "I'd like to formally request that René's name be stricken from the Etra Clan and be added to mine."
"Of course." The king nodded before glancing at his assistant. "See that it is done and add that it has my blessing."
"May I also have my name stricken from the Etra Clan?" Pierre asked.
"You can add his name to my clan," my father said.
"And me," my mother stepped forward. She sent her father a deep glare. "I haven't been a member of that clan since they called my son an abomination."
"I'd also like to be stricken from the Rinaldi Clan, sir." Isabella smiled at Antoinette. "It's taken me twenty-five years to be at Antoinette's side. I don't want to be separated from her now."
King Nicolae nodded his approval, and his assistant wrote it down on his tablet. He glanced around at the crowd. "Anyone else?"
My jaw dropped when several of the people in the crowd around my grandfather stepped forward and raised their hands.
The king sighed. "Very well." He nodded to his assistant. "Give Yuval your names." After the five men and women rushed over to Yuval, the king turned to look back at my grandfather. "Should I be concerned that so many young people are leaving your clan? Just what have you been doing over there?"
